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7/24/2012 4:35PM

Romney Ahead on Economy, Trails Elsewhere

Republican Mitt Romney, who has focused almost his entire campaign on his ability to turn around the economy, continues to enjoy an advantage with voters on that key subject, even as he trails in other categories, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Neil King has details on The News Hub.

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... the ... Romney continues to weigh in with the test when it comes to the economy ... we got Neil King joining us now from Washington DC that tells about this ... Wall Street John all NBC News poll ... aam will this will ... not get out that tell us more about this ... yet here what we're doing now is ... is sharing one idea from our poll ... of the rest will come out in a couple of hours ... but the good news for Mitt Romney is that the leaves in this one area among Paul among voters which is ... of which candidate do you think is better on the economy and he leads by about seven points ... the bad news for Romney is not on a whole bunch of other questions in the same section who's better looking after the middle-class ... cruise of more knowledgeable and experienced to be president ... and has a better commander in chief ... Obama leads by double digits in all of those areas so that's going to be a kind of tough finding from the Romney campaign ... to typically in the past has been the economy that has trumped everything ... yet well it's hard to say really I mean you know if you think of the characteristics that people are to ... buy is being a commander in chief important going back to previous campaign certainly in two thousand for or even into thousandeight that was a really big issue in the country was feeling nervous about ... it the moment of course the economy matters a lot but I wouldn't say it's the absolute ... issue of related ability is an important one and ... then you see a lot of that in our poll just who do people relate to most than the issue of ... you know who is best to looking after the middle class ... Obama gets fifty percent basically ... court are compared to a third of the people that think Romney is better for that ... now if anyone think that a sign that anyone who has been president is better equipped to be president none of them the next bus rides because they have the experience of being that it's a job or you cough also we know ... what it's like until you've done a ... the IV gotta be fair to say ... okay ... so what overall I'm who who is winning aam and some so the overall numbers bite you if you are likely voters who would you like leave a fourth election was tomorrow ... how long ... isolated created a layout with NBC News of the six thirty will release all the results of ... that particular top line number is among the rest of the file folder or yes ... and what I'd I just love the hot news that maybe was going us laugh at my my apologies for that ... question to you Bob CEO of Washington DC and they can know races to present ... full for ... quite a long while ... is it time for Romney to send this around to or is this becoming some warm more set in stone ... well what to say about our Polish people will see a little bit later today ... is that this margin of of that between the two candidates is one that we've seen repeatedly over the last year ... in previous fall and is the kind of thing that considering we're now in the middle of the summer it is starting to solidify ... a bit and it's going to be increasingly top particularly after the conventions ... of Romney doesn't really start to move so the conventions of late next month ... that is a very big moment for his party and for him to really ... sees the attention of the American public and move forward so that certainly not to lay but if you look at other precedents ... um it's going to the top for a challenger to really move briskly ... unless you start to do it really is and and and I'm fed up with all that spot of the new iPad's four and his running my right ... I think I'll be a part of it there are couple of things that will be big attention grabbing moments that is that the taking of the vice presidential candidate the isthe conventions and then of course ... there are the three debates and those are going to be the big three moments ... for Romney facing off against Obama and really trying to conduct raids and stays up to and six that evening about headline number I was so anxious to with a lot of you